Immigration

Across our district, particularly in the agricultural sector, employees have come to rely on seasonal workforces, and often those workers are migrants. We must ensure that migrant workforces don’t displace domestic workers by way permitting unlivable wages or conditions, and we must also ensure that our businesses have access to needed worker numbers. We must also ensure that international trade practices do not fuel races to the economic bottom, which yield mass migrations of workers displaced from jobs in their home economies. Further, if we’re to hit gross domestic product targets underpinning current economic models, and acknowledge a decline in domestic birthrates, we must bring additional workers into our economy.

Fair Trade and Labor Practices

To decrease the need for mass workforce migrations, ensure that international trade agreements focus on fair trade and enforcement of level playing fields